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Aluna, 2017, Maria Berrio

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RALPH HULETT Three Wise Men Gouache 21″ x 17.5″

[huariqueje]

Into de Storm  -   Chin H. Shin, 2016

Korean,b. ?

Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 

[n64thstreet]

The bat wrath & beyond ad for Batman Beyond.

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Dean Ellis, The Proud Robot, 1975

[the-cinder-fields]

Marjorie Cameron (1922-1995), illustration from Songs for the Witch Woman

[stateoffelicity]

Sign the Petition

Justice for Lakeith Smith and A’Donte Washington!

Please sign the petition!!!

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[pleoros]

Time Lapse, Zocalo, Mexico City, 1999 by Francis Alÿs

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Paul Mathey (1844-1929) “Portrait of painter Georges Clairin” Oil on canvas Located in the Musée des Augustins, Hazebrouck, France

Georges Clairin (1843-1919) was a French Orientalist painter and illustrator. He was influenced by Eastern imagery Moorish architecture, and visited North Africa many times, in particular Algeria, Morocco and Egypt. In Paris he led the life of a socialite, and befriended the glamorous actress Sarah Bernhardt, his friend for 50 years, and is today best known for his portraits of her.

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Toni Morrison Takes White Supremacy To Task

Few intellectuals have waged a public battle against white supremacy and patriarchy like Toni Morrison. Morrison has both examined and challenged systems of domination throughout her intellectual life. With her novels, essays, and interviews she has taken critical looks at the interlocking systems of race and gender oppression. In this interview she is asked by PBS’s Charlie Rose what it is like for her to encounter racism. In true Morrison fashion she turns the question on its head, and places the onus for explaining racism back into the hands of White people. She asks Rose what he thinks of racism, why do Whites hold onto, and what are they going to do about it ending it. She rejects the notion that racism is simply something that Black people must grapple with, insisting, demanding, that White people also grapple with it. Fearless. Brilliant. Powerful.

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[useless-spain-facts]

@childish latinxs: grow up and learn some critical thinking instead of blaming Spanish people who have nothing to do with your colonisation (500 years ago) and actually are 100% against it. It's so ridiculous.

That is the best part, right? A great majority of us are against colonialism. In fact in this blog I said that I’m against it. We weren’t the ones going. And attacking us and our culture for that?? Ridiculous

I’m going to start telling Italian people shit because Romans colonised us

[egoisteclipse-deactivated202005]

Here put these on:

You are literally comparing the Roman empire colonisation of the Iberian Peninsula (which happened several hundred years ago) to Spanish colonialism that only ceased - on a grand scale - by the end of the 19th Century. Even today Spain continues to occupy - as a colonial force - places like Melilla and Ceuta, and several Spanish corporations throughout Central and South America act as proxies of Spanish imperialism and literally continue to steal natural resources at the cost of local populations.

As soon as it’s suggested that Spain should pay reparations to former colonies for centuries of mass genocide and profiteering from slave trade and resource extraction people here go berserk in rage for simply mentioning historical facts, and pull out their best racist vocabulary and stereotypes on peoples from the Americas living here.

Spain’s colonial legacy is a fairly recent one

[useless-spain-facts]

Another one that can’t understand a joke or sarcasm… I swear to god

[egoisteclipse-deactivated202005]

You: bitter cultural chauvinist reaction to someone making a tweet mocking European Spanish speakers and Spain’s colonial imperial history

Anyone with a degree of compassion and understanding of history: please don’t do this, it’s embarrassing

You:

[useless-spain-facts]

YeaaH, you don’t like it? Piss of then. Again, if you don’t understand sarcasm… it is your problem babess

[tabacochanel]

“Several Spanish corporations in central and South America act as proxies of Spanish imperialism”... la verdad es que sí me ofende que existan tantos salvadoreños que piensan que Zara es haute couture.

But anyways! Hablando en serio, Spain has had a friendly relationship with Latin America since independence. Tons of development projects, scholarship programs, infrastructure building, literacy programs...

And Spain DOES have a system of reparations for citizens of its former colonies, including my country, El Salvador. Spain gives us an expedited citizenship process- takes only two years of residency in Spain and they’re flexible with definition of “residency”. It’s almost like their way of saying “hey, sorry we left you in these conditions 200 years ago, but we’re gonna make it easy for you to come live in the EU where the quality of life is better”...it may not seem like a lot, but it’s an inteligent way to offer help bc it’s grounded in modernity, given the complexities and limitations of financial reparations. You can’t expect Spain to just give Latin America money- there are smarter ways to help.

Spain is also actively apologizing to Sephardic Jews for what they did to them 500 years ago by granting their descendants citizenship.

Imagine if the United States extended a similar courtesy to Latin Americans.

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Emperor Nicholas II of Russia with his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna as Tsar Alexei I and his 1st wife Tsaritsa Maria Miloslavskaya during the famous 1903 Winter Palace Ball. Nicholas sits on the ivory throne of Tsar Ivan IV “The Terrible”. Image originally from Tatiana Z, colorized by me.